A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)

"A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)" is a 1963 song issued as the B-side to Motown singing group Martha and the Vandellas' hit single, "Heat Wave", released on the Gordy label.^[1]

"A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Every Day)"
Single by Martha and the Vandellas
from the album Come and Get These Memories
A-side	"Heat Wave"
Released	June 28, 1963 (album) July 9, 1963 (single)
Recorded	Hitsville U.S.A. (Studio A), May 2, 1963
Genre	Soul
Label	Gordy G 7022
Songwriter(s)	Holland–Dozier–Holland
Producer(s)	Brian Holland Lamont Dozier
Martha and the Vandellas singles chronology
"Come and Get These Memories" (1963) "Heat Wave" / "A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)" (1963) "Quicksand" (1963)

"A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)"
1966 UK single
Single by Ike & Tina Turner
from the album River Deep - Mountain High
B-side	"Hold On Baby"
Released	October 1966 (UK) August 1967 (US)
Recorded	1966
Studio	Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Soul pop pop rock
Length	2:52
Label	London (UK) Philles (US)
Songwriter(s)	Holland-Dozier-Holland
Producer(s)	Phil Spector
Ike & Tina Turner singles chronology
"I'll Never Need More Than This" (1967) "A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)" (1967) "So Fine" (1968)

"A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)"
Single by Harry Nilsson & Cher
from the album All Meat
B-side	"(Just Enough To Keep Me) Hangin' On"
Released	1975
Recorded	1975
Genre	Pop rock
Length	3:38
Label	Phil Spector International Warner-Spector
Songwriter(s)	Holland–Dozier–Holland
Producer(s)	Phil Spector
Cher singles chronology
"A Woman's Story" (1974) "A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)" (1975) "Pirate" (1977)

The song, written and produced by Vandellas cohorts, Holland–Dozier–Holland, is a song where a woman praises her lover for loving her after she "broke (his) heart and made (him) blue" saying afterwards "instead of hurting back" telling her he loved her.

The song, while not released as a single, is regarded as a sixties classic with notable covers by Ike & Tina Turner, Dusty Springfield, Harry Nilsson and Cher, Juice Newton, Manfred Mann, and the Animals.^[2] Ike & Tina's version was the only version that became a charted hit peaking at No. 16 on the UK Singles charts.^[3]

Credits

• Lead vocals and spoken monologues by Martha Reeves
• Background vocals by Rosalind Ashford, Annette Beard, and Brian Holland
• Produced by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier
• Written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Edward Holland, Jr.
• Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers

Ike & Tina Turner version

Ike & Tina Turner recorded a version for their 1966 album River Deep – Mountain High. The single was released on London Records in the UK in October 1966.^[4] The single received positive reviews.^[5]

Ike & Tina Turner performed the song on the British TV show Ready Steady Go!.^[4]

A limited amount of copies were issued in the US by Phil Spector's label Philles Records in 1967. This was the label's final release of any single. The album River Deep – Mountain High was not released in the US until it was reissued by A&M Records in 1969.^[6] Following the album's reissue, "A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)" was reissued as a single in the US in 1970.

Track listing

1966 UK single

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)"	Holland–Dozier–Holland
2.	"Hold On Baby"	Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry

1967 US single

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)"	Holland–Dozier–Holland
2.	"I Idolize You"	Ike Turner

1970 US reissue

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Every Day)"	Holland–Dozier–Holland
2.	"Save the Last Dance for Me"	Pomus, Shuman

Chart performance

Chart (1966)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart[7]	16